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Army's lead sex assault lawyer accused of assault

(NEWSER) – The Army's top prosecutor for sexual assault cases has been removed from his post after being accused of sexually assaulting a lawyer—at a conference on sexual assault. Joseph "Jay" Morse was suspended last month after the lawyer reported that he tried to "kiss and grope her against her will" in a hotel room during the 2011 conference, sources tell Stars and Stripes. Morse, who supervised around two dozen prosecutors as chief of the Trial Counsel Assistance Program, was also the chief prosecutor in the case of Robert Bales, who pleaded guilty to massacring 16 Afghan civilians.